Lectures/Literary
2025 Write on the River Writers Competition
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center 127 South Mission, Wenatchee, Washington, United StatesDo you have a memoir brewing? Got good pages filed away? Feeling inspired to finish that story? Winter is a fine time to hone your writing or create something brand new, and the 2025 Writers Competition is a great way to reach discerning readers. Write On The River, in partnership with the Wenatchee Valley Museum […]
Belonging to the Future by Retelling the Past
Whitman College, Olin Hall Room 138Lecture by Susan J. Brison, Professor of Philosophy and Susan and James Wright Professor of Computation and Just Communties at Dartmouth College. Lecture is titled “Belonging to the Future by Retelling the Past.” This talk explores how those whose lives seem hopeless can construct new narratives of their pasts that enable them to create future […]
Fasting and Feasting in Religious Traditions
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU 1535 NE Wilson Road, Pullman, United StatesWe enter into this world, among other things—hungry! Shortly before we draw our last breath, we being our final journey by voluntarily abstaining from food and even water. In the course of our lives, regardless of ethnicity or class, we come together and share food in times of celebration and remembrance, and we may find […]
Critical South-North Dialogues on Mining Extraction and the Energy Transition
Whitman College Maxey Hall, Room 306This series of public talks center on the socio-ecological impacts of the mega-mine “Mirador” in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. These talks feature members from the Indigenous organization CASCOMI and of the environmental collective Comunálisis, who will share (via zoom) their insights and expertise on the entrenched politics and conflicts related to the rise of extractive […]
Blue Mountain Tellers Group
Walla Walla Public Library 238 E. Alder, Walla Walla, United StatesEvery 1st Saturday of the month from 1:30-3:00 pm, story teller Rebecca Hom leads the Blue Mountain Tellers, a local storytelling group open to all from beginners to experts. Come hear a story and learn how to tell your own. Visit the Walla Walla Public Library website at wallawallapubliclibrary.org for a full listing of library […]
Scarecrow Video Presents: Oscar Preview 2025
In anticipation of the Academy Awards ceremony (which will be held Sunday, March 2nd), film historian Lance Rhoades will share highlights and controversies from previous ceremonies, discuss the current nominees and issues, and offer his own Oscar predictions. Admission is free. Registration is required: bit.ly/svoscars25
Critical South-North Dialogues on Mining Extraction and the Energy Transition
Whitman CollegeThis series of public talks center on the socio-ecological impacts of the mega-mine “Mirador” in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. These talks feature members from the Indigenous organization CASCOMI and of the environmental collective Comunálisis, who will share (via zoom) their insights and expertise on the entrenched politics and conflicts related to the rise of extractive […]
Watson Fellowship Q&A Panel with Alumni
Olin Hall Auditorium, 138Whitman alumni Annie Means '22, Cameron Conner '20, and Katie Jose '23 will share stories of pursuing their passions around the world through the Watson Fellowship. Learn about the experiences of these alumni on their Watson Fellowship years abroad, and how the fellowship is helping them launch into their next steps. To learn more about […]
Classics Lecture | Madeline Miller
Kimball Theatre in Hunter Conservatory 324 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, United StatesJudd D. Kimball Endowed Lecture in Classics Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 6:00 pm Kimball Theater in Hunter Conservatory An Evening with Madeline Miller This is a hybrid event. Please join us in-person or online for this livestreamed Zoom lecture. A Q&A moderated at the in-person event in Kimball Theater will follow the Zoom lecture. […]
Reimagining Border Crises through Black “Aliveness”: Spectacular Urgencies and Quotidian Lives
Olin Hall Auditorium, 138Guest speaker Lisa Flores, the Josephine Berry Weiss Chair of the Humanities and professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State, will deliver a public talk on "Spectacular Urgencies and Quotidian Lives: Reimagining Border Crises through Black “Aliveness.” In recent years, public imaging of U.S. border crises, especially […]
